Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Allen

Citations

• 66 Miss. 549

Syllabus

<p>1. Telegraph Companies. Negligence. Liability to sendee.</p> <p>A telegraph company in assuming to transmit and deliver a message assumes a duty not only to the sender hut also to the person to whom it is addressed, and for negligent delay or other breach of duty in reference thereto an action will lie in favor of the sendee, although he has paid nothing for its transmission.</p> <p>2. Negligence oe Telegraph Companies. Statutory penalty.</p> <p>If any telegraph company shall neglect, fail, or refuse to transmit and deliver, within a reasonable time, without good and sufficient excuse, any message delivered to it for such purpose, the person injured shall recover the sum of twenty-five dollars in addition to such damages as are now allowed by law. Acts 1886, p. 91.</p> <p>8. Same. Act of March 18, 1886 ; in whose favor applicable.</p> <p>This statute applies in favor of the sendee as well as the sender of the message.</p>